Amitabh Bachchan owns several high-value properties in India and abroad, but his two bungalows in Mumbai’s Juhu neighbourhood hold a special place in his life. While Jalsa is his current residence, Prateeksha carries decades of family memories and was once the Bachchan family’s home. Both properties also reflect the milestones the actor achieved during the peak of his film career.Jalsa is a two-storey bungalow spread across 10,125 square feet and reportedly worth around Rs 100 crore. It is home to him, his wife Jaya Bachchan, son Abhishek Bachchan, daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and granddaughter Aaradhya Bachchan. Jalsa, which was originally called Mansa, belonged to producer NC Sippy. He gifted the bungalow to Big B following the success of his son Raj N Sippy’s 1982 action comedy ‘Satte Pe Satta’, in which the actor played the lead role. The property was reportedly given as compensation for his work in the film. Bachchan eventually sold it but bought it back years later at a higher price on Jaya Bachchan’s insistence and renamed it Jalsa. The name translates to ‘celebration’ and reflects the remarkable success he had achieved by the early 1980s.In an interview earlier with Free Press Journal, Amitabh Bachchan had discussed Jalsa, which was originally known as Mansa. The bungalow reportedly came back into his possession after Jaya Bachchan expressed her wish to have it back. Acting on her insistence, Amitabh repurchased the property at a considerably higher market price and later renamed it Jalsa.The iconic Mumbai bungalow is now at the centre of a property dispute that is being heard by the Deputy Registrar of Co-operative Societies in Andheri. The controversy revolves around conflicting ownership records. While the Kapol Housing Society’s records reportedly list Jaya Bachchan as the owner, the Maharashtra government’s Property Card identifies Ramola Bachchan as the property’s owner. Ramola is Amitabh’s sister-in-law and is married to his younger brother, Ajitabh Bachchan. The dispute has resurfaced following an attempt to update the ownership records in Jaya Bachchan’s name. Ramola has challenged the 1993 gift deed through which the bungalow was transferred to Jaya Bachchan, alleging that the transaction took place without her knowledge or consent. She has also questioned the legal validity of the transfer.Meanwhile, his other property, Prateeksha, covers 16,840 square feet and is estimated to be worth Rs 50 crore. His daughter Shweta Bachchan lives there with her children, Agastya Nanda and Navya Naveli Nanda.Prateeksha, meanwhile, has an even longer association with the Bachchan family. Bachchan purchased the property in 1976, a year after the phenomenal success of Ramesh Sippy’s ‘Sholay’, which also starred Jaya Bachchan. Recalling the occasion of moving into their first family-owned home, the actor had written in an earlier blog post, “The day in 1976 we moved into the first house that this generation had ever bought and built, and called its own.”The property was named Prateeksha by father, legendary poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan.